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Made it across the Richmond-San Rafael bridge. This was a big question mark in the hike plan, as the ped/bike path is closed most of the day for bridge inspections this week, and at some point soon 'in the fall" it will be closed Mon-Wed entirely. Made for the longest day yet, and my feet are complaining loudly. But it worked!

@trevorflowers I was legit shocked.

Riveting public art together is actually pretty fun, as I happen to know: https://youtu.be/QakByu73sL4

Call me overly literal, but I'm disappointed that the Rosie the Riveter Memorial is, in fact, bolted and welded together.

The Illuminati has fallen on hard times.

God I love a good spite house.

Oh, and I found some Kierkegaard in a little free library today, I guess that was noteworthy.

I'm next to the Oakland airport tonight, which means I'm now solidly north of where I started in SFO, 9 days ago. I've been having some foot problems, but nothing catastrophic yet. If I keep up the current rate, I should be done in a week, with a day to spare on my vacation time.

The Richmond-San Quentin bridge might be a problem, though. The pedestrian path is closed this week 9:00-15:00, I just noticed. (In addition to it being closed Mon-Wed starting "in the fall", so I guess September doesn't count as the fall? Absolutely maddening public communications choice there.) Assuming it actually opens at 15:00, it's 8km to the first hotel, so that's doable. But I'm not sure how much to trust to that.

Signs you might be in Silicon Valley: your hotel room has a framed collage of Charles Babbage made up from images of his creations.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a Lake.

I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to see an Andy Goldsworthy installation in person -- Stone River, on Stanford campus. And there is at least one more along my route, in another 10 days or so.

I couldn't resist swinging by the labyrinth on the EA campus, despite already having 2 weeks of walking ahead of me. It was very serene.

...but my waffle labyrinth (https://youtu.be/SlCJ6hp1xZY) is tastier.

Due to the prevalence of trace fossils, e.g. figure 1, it is believed that this carbonate unit of the Redwood City Formation was deposited in the early fall.

I don't think this utility box is going to pass the design rules check.

...oh, goddammit, are the Oracle buildings supposed to look like the cylindrical database icons from old system diagrams?

@jwz "Don't mix units of weight and mass on device"

Now THAT is a comprehensive set of warning icons!

The SF Bay hike project has begun! Tonight I am in Burlingame.

It turns out that, yes, you *can* walk south out of SFO, despite what Google says. You just have to walk for 2 km in a bike land along a depressing utility road, sandwiched between a highway and a forbidding security wall. But after that is a lovely little estuary park, seemingly designed for planespotters. I admit, I did stop to wait to watch a A380 take off.

@mattieuMattieu Eeeee!